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North Weald Bassett

PARISH COUNCIL

MINUTES

Meeting: PLANNING

Date: 2^nd August 2010

Time: 7.15 PM

Venue: NORTH WEALD LIBRARY, HIGH ROAD, NORTH WEALD

PRESENT:

Councillors (12)

B Eldridge (Chairman), N Bedford, S Boalch, P Collins, S Dinsdale, C Hawkins , Mrs A Garwood, Mrs A Grigg, C Hudson, T Sawyer, D Spearman, D Stallan

Also in Attendance (3)

Susan De Luca – Clerk to the Council

Adriana Jones – Finance & Administrative Officer

Barnaby Godwin Brown – Junior Administrator Parish Liaison Officer

Members of the Public (4)

4 Members of the public were present.

Members of the Press (0)

No Members of the Press were present.

P10.27 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE (3)

NOTED that apologies had been received from Councillors Godwin Brown, Poulton and Ryan.

P10.28 OTHER ABSENCES (0)

No other apologies necessary.

P10.29 MINUTES

The Minutes of the Meeting of the Planning Meeting held on the 19^th July had been circulated one amendment was made after which they were confirmed and signed as a true record.

P10.30 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

NOTED the following Declarations of Interests:

Councillor Mrs A Grigg	Councillor Mrs A Grigg personal non-prejudicial interest on any item relating to Epping Forest District Council by virtue of being a District Councillor.
Councillors, Hawkins, Eldridge, Collins,	Personal & Prejudicial interest on the item relating to the Mehmaan Restaurant. It should be noted that these Councillors had attended the restaurant on the 24^th June and had completed the relevant Code Of Conduct Hospitality forms or had paid for their own meals and drinks and had signed statements, to this effect. All of these had been lodged with EFDC’s Monitoring Officer.
Councillor Mrs A Grigg	Personal Non Prejudicial interest on the item relating to the Mehmaan Restaurant. Councillor Mrs Grigg had attended the restaurant on the 24^th June and had paid for her own and her guests meals and drinks and had signed a statement, to this effect, all which had been lodged with EFDC’s Monitoring Officer.
Councillors Mrs A Grigg Councillor D Stallan Councillor C Hawkins	Item 6.5 had all responded to a Consultation document and therefore declared personal interests in this item.

P10.31 PLANNING APPLICATIONS

The following applications were considered by Members

No	Application Number	Location	Proposal
	EPF/1370/10 Nigel Richardson	Land at Brent House Farm Harlow Common North Weald C K Property Investments	Demolition of industrial buildings and associated structures, removal of authorised use of site for car repair, storage and related uses, and replacement with construction of eight residential dwellings, together with associated parking and landscaping.
This Parish Council *STRONGLY SUPPORTS* this application subject to the withdrawal of the already issued Certificate of Local Development and a section 106 agreement which would benefit the community of Hastingwood.
	EPF/1209/10 Jennifer Cordell	Weald Hall Care Home Weald Hall Lane North Weald Mr P Sohal	Single and one and a half storey extensions to existing care home to provide 9 additional bedrooms and improved facilities (EMI) (Revised application).
This Parish Council *STRONGLY SUPPORTS* this application
	EPF/1348/10 Marie-Claire Tovey	1 Woodside Cottages Woodside Thornwood Common Camfaud Concrete Pumps Limited	Single storey ground floor extension.
The Parish Council has *NO OBJECTION* to this application
	EPF/1349/10 Marie-Claire Tovey	2 Woodside Cottages Woodside, Thornwood Common Camfaud Concrete Pumps Limited	Single storey ground floor extension.
The Parish Council has *NO OBJECTION* to this application
	EPF/1123/10 Graham Courtney	Carisbrook Farm Kiln Road North Weald Mrs Patricia Woolhead	Retention of permanent residential mobile home site for gypsy and traveller use.
This Parish Council has *NO OBJECTION* to this application subject to it being 1 pitch for the use of the family members of Mr Henry and Mrs Pat Woolhead

P10.32 DECISIONS BY EPPING FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL

a) Applications on which the Parish Council had no objections where permission has been GRANTED.

b) PL/EPF/0766/10 – 25 Forest Glade, North Weald

c) PL/EPF/0696/10 – Dorrington Farm, Rye Hill Road, Thornwood

d) PL/EPF/0767/10 – 18 Rowley Mead, Thornwood

e) PL/EPF/0797/10 – 39 Princes Close, North Weald

f) PL/EPF/0803/10 – 12 Emberson Way, North Weald

g) PL/EPF/0806/10 – 8 Vicarage Lane, North Weald

h) PL/EPF/0877/10 – Land adjacent to Station House, Station Road,

i) North Weald

NOTED

b) Applications on which the Parish Council had no objections where permission has been REFUSED.

PL/EPF/0779/10 CLD – 57 Weald Bridge Road, North Weald – Not Lawful –

RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN INVITED TO SUBMIT A PLANNING APPLICATION.

c) Applications on which the Parish Council raised comments/objections

where permission has been GRANTED

NONE RECEIVED

d) Applications on which the Parish Council had objections (and/or

raised comments)

PL/EPF/0398/10 – Essex Motocross, Weald Hall, Weald Hall Lane, Thornwood –. It is the Clerks understanding that they will be going to appeal, however no official Notice of appeal has been received. Councillor Sawyer is concerned that materials are being imported possibly for earth bundings Clerk confirmed she would contact enforcement. Councillor Garwood asked if we can speak if they go to appeal –The Clerk advised that the Inspector will ask for comments (verbal or written).

PL/EPF/0705/10 – Marquee, North Weald Airfield, Merlin Way, North Weald Bassett - Refused.

P10.33 PLANNING CORRESPONDENCE

a) Randalls – The Clerk had not received any further correspondence from the HSE email regarding Randalls – The Clerk was asked to write to someone higher up in the chain of command at the HSE. She would therefore write a formal complaint to the Chief Executives. She had received a very brief and rather unhelpful response from S Isaccs relating to Randalls. Councillor Hudson advised that this still did not address the Root Cause Analysis Issues. The Clerk was asked to chase this again to the Environment Agency and ask for this information. Councillor Hudson would also give her a response regarding the area of land query asked for by the Environment Agency. Councillor Stallan asked the Clerk to provide the Council with an estimate of the amount of time that she had spent working on this current problem with Randalls. The Clerk would do this.

P10.34 ANY OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO PLANNING

a) Litter in Hastingwood – Councillor Eldridge advised that he was still very concerned at the amount of rubbish still in Hastingwood. Clerk advised that she had sent an email on the 21^st July. Kim Durani who had responded that schedules had previously been sent out advising of the dates and times of litter pick ups. The Clerk had not received the schedules but had now found out that they were two weekly on a Monday, the last pick up in Hastingwood having been carried out on the 26^th July. Councillor Eldridge felt that this was not the case. Councillor Stallan advised that if this Council was unsure that the pick ups were not being adhered to, the best thing would be to identify and date some litter and then check to see if it had in fact been picked up. If this was not the case then advise the Portfolio Holder Mary Sartin and enlist her help. Councillor Eldridge advised that he would do this. The Clerk and the Admin Officer had visited Hastingwood today and saw 19 pieces of litter. Councillor Eldridge advised that this was after he and others had cleaned it up. (This had not included Hastingwood roundabout). The Clerk advised that there had been no increase to the cleaning schedules since roadworks have been started. Councillor Bedford asked the Clerk if she had asked the question as to how street cleaning is done – the Clerk said no, but she would assume somebody with bags and litter picker. McDonalds do litter pick the opposite side of road where layby is for 100 meters, however they no longer do Hastingwood. There is nothing on the planning condition notice which says they need to clean Hastingwood. Councillor Stallan reiterated his earlier comments and also said we could also pick up the McDonalds rubbish and return it to them.

b) Councillor Boalch voiced his concern regarding the vehicle crossover opposite no. 11 Weald Bridge Road. The Clerk advised that the crossover was actually situated opposite no’s 17-19 Weald Bridge Road. Councillors voiced their concern at the possibility of the infilling of the ditch. The Clerk advised that she was currently liaising with the Environment Agency on this matter. Councillor Stallan said there would be no harm in writing to Eric Pickles MP to advise we are very concerned regarding the infilling of the ditch and its implications. Councillor Dinsdale said his concern is that that houses will get flooded.

Meeting closed 8.36pm

Signed .....................................................................

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